Research Director - Strategy & Team Leadership

Resources Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Resources Group is seeking a senior consumer insights expert to empower Australia’s leading brands with strategic firepower. You’ll be an embedded trusted advisor, able to wow the c-suite, cut through complexity and craft bold, data-driven strategy using deep methodological smarts.

You’ll lead high-impact client work across telco, property, payments and food brands, mentor a team, drive performance, grow the pipeline, and deliver workshops and presentations that translate complex data into clear

Qualifications

• Significant experience in customised consumer insights strategy.
• Strong market research agency track record.
• Extensive quantitative toolkit across industries and ad hoc challenges.
• Qualitative skills are a bonus.
• Sharp analytical skills.
• Confidence presenting, facilitating and advising senior stakeholders.
• Strategic curiosity, rigour and imagination.
• Experience building high-performance teams.

Responsibilities

• Champion amazing client relationships
• Tackle thorny business problems through smart research design
• Drawing from your deep well of quantitative methodologies
• Translate sophisticated data sets into clear, actionable strategies
• Facilitate workshops, deliver impactful presentations, and engage senior stakeholders
• Apply deep strategic thinking to propel client performance
• Flex your commercial muscles to develop the pipeline
• Manage a team

Skills

Consumer insights strategy

Client relationship management

Data interpretation

Stakeholder presentation

Team leadership

Tools

Quantitative modelling

Qualitative research

Workshop facilitation

Job description

Are you a senior consumer insights expert ready to bring serious strategic firepower to some of Australia’s biggest consumer brands?

We need a strategist who can wow the c-suite, cut through complexity, draw from deep methodological smarts, mine insights from data in unexpected ways, and craft bold, brilliant strategy.

Recent Projects & Strategic Partnerships

You’ll work as a trusted advisor to some of Australia’s most recognisable brands - embedded in long-term partnerships that shape strategy and drive performance. Recent work includes:

• Supporting challenger telco brands with segmentation, choice modelling, dual brand and comms trackers, and agile ad hoc projects across product, comms and CX.
• Partnering with a national property developer on strategy for residential developments - combining quant, qual, modelling and co-creation workshops.
• Working with a global payments provider and their partners on U&As that fuel innovation with consultancy-style delivery, stakeholder workshops and high-level exposure.
• Advising a fast-growing food brand across brand health, reputation, message testing and product development — a dynamic mix of tracking and strategic project work.

What you’ll be doing:

• Champion amazing client relationships
• Tackle thorny business problems through smart research design
• Drawing from your deep well of quantitative methodologies
• Translate sophisticated data sets into clear, actionable strategies
• Facilitate workshops, deliver impactful presentations, and engage senior stakeholders
• Apply deep strategic thinking to propel client performance
• Flex your commercial muscles to develop the pipeline
• Manage a team

You’ll bring:

• Significant experience in customised consumer insights strategy
• A strong market research agency track record
• A packed methodological toolkit (quantitative) with a wealth of experience across industries and complex, ad hoc research challenges
• Qualitative skills a bonus
• Sharp analytical skills (Q)
• Confidence as a presenter, facilitator and trusted advisor
• Strategic curiosity, rigour, and imagination in equal measure
• Experience in building up high-performance team members
• Market-leading rewards – salary, bonuses, and perks
• No timesheets – focus on impact, not admin
• Rocket science thinking – challenge your thinking, get comfortable with what you don’t know, and learn from inspiring folk!
• Flexibility – hybrid model (3:2), with an office vibe that draws the team in naturally
• Agility with scale – collaborate with smart teams across locations, with all-agency events that fuel learning, connection, and celebration
• Innovative leadership – a forward-thinking SLT driving change in the insights space
• Directorship – A clear pathway to agency SLT level.

If you're craving stretch, variety and influence - this one’s for you.

About Resources Group

We are the Leading Global Talent Agency for Insights, Analytics & Data Strategy. Our consultants take the time to truly understand your career aims and are dedicated to providing tailored, impartial advice to find you the very best career move. We have access to an unrivalled and exclusive range of job opportunities with trailblazing agencies and blue-chips across Australia, NZ and APAC.

Resources Group’s Diversity and Equality Policy determines that we submit applicants to our clients on the basis of merit and ability, regardless of race, colour, age, disability, family responsibilities, gender, marital status, nationality, religious or political views or affiliations, sexual orientation or socio-economic background.